Fathers can seem powerful and overwhelming to their daughters. Let her see your soft side. Express your feelings and reactions. Te...ll her where you came from and how you got there. Let her see that you have had fears, failures, anxious times, hurts, just like hers, even though you may look flawless to her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Remember...that each child is a separate person, yours forever, but never fully yours. She can never be all you wished or wanted, ...or all you know she could be. But she will be a better human being if you can let her be herself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

We hear much of chivalry of men towards women; but ... it vanishes like dew before the summer sun when one of us comes into compet...ition with the manly sex. Let a woman sit, weep, wring her hands, and exult in her own helplessness, and the modern knight buckles on his imaginary breastplate and draws his sword in her behalf; but when the woman girds up her loins for the battle of life, ready to fight like a lioness, if need be, to put food in the mouths of her children, let her select for her field the living-room or the cooking range.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Our American institutions have been friendly to her, and at this moment, I esteem it a chief felicity of this country, that it exc...els in women. A certain awkward consciousness of inferiority in men, may give rise to the new chivalry in behalf of Women's Rights. Certainly, let her be as much better placed in the laws and the social forms, as the most zealous reformer can ask, but I confide so entirely in her inspiring and musical nature, that I believe only herself can show us how she shall be served.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well a...s a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness--her selfishness, in short--is a reproach to the American way of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Follow a shaddow, it still flies you;Seeme to flye it, it will pursue:...So court a mistris, shee denyes you;Let her alone, shee will court you.Say, are not women truely, then,Stil'd but the shaddowes of us men?At morne, and even, shades are longest;At noone, they are or short, or none:So men at weakest, they are strongest,But grant us perfect, they're not knowne.Say, are not women truely, then,Stil'd but the shaddowes of us men?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A real man doesn't have to run from his mother, and may even have to face the reality that no great deed is going to be great enou...gh for him to ransom himself completely, and he may always be in his mother's debt. If he understands that . . . he won't have to feel guilty, and he won't have to please her completely. He can go ahead and be nice to her and let her be part of his life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto ...detestable--having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, we shall comprehend them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Your daughter is old enough to do what she pleases ... she likes to fuck, loves to fuck ... she was born to fuck, and ... if you d...o not wish to be fucked yourself, the best thing for you to do is to let her do what she wants.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »